Saturday, October 15, 2016

Tricia's Reflection

When I first thought about reflection I was planning on creating a quilt from a water reflection. I have been working on that technique. About a month ago I was walking with my daughter and husband around Boston near where she lived. We were enjoying that beautiful day. At one point I turned around and saw the reflection in the Prudential Building. I stopped a took a photograph. It was so striking. Thinking about how to recreate it. I decided to use Kathy Loomis's fine line piecing technique. It was quite a challenge creating the building and keeping everything lined up and straight. It's not quite straight :) You can see the begining stitching below.

For the reflection I enlarged my photograph to the same size, scanned it and printed the image on Printed Treasures. It was an interesting challenge.

10 comments:

Tricia, I love this! I have a similar of photo, taken in Houston during Festival several years ago, and I didn't even think to use it. You have done such an outstanding job, and I really appreciate all the details telling us HOW you created this wonderful quilt! Thanks for that and for a lovely quilt!

Beautifully done - it looks like it took a long time and was quite tedious!! But very effective. I love using photographs as inspiration - it's so challenging and satisfying to successfully transfer an image from one medium to another!!

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